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The following films are reproduced courtesy of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, P.O. Box 720, Oyster Bay, NY 11771: U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquirí, Cuba; Troops Making Military Road in Front of Santiago; Pack Mules with Ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba.

More notated music like this

I'll be with you honey in honey suckle time
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Newman, Olive Frields
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music

The toilers of the sea
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Farrel, Tom
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1906

He marched away in the gloaming
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Delestry, Edmond Louis
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1905

All night long
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Brooks, Shelton
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1912

Some of these days
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Brooks, Shelton
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1910

You go in mister friend of mine, I'll stay out here
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Brooks, Shelton
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1910

Just for tonight
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Cobb, George L.
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1913

For you alone
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Gould, Harold Jack
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1911

Sweet Estelle I do not ask your pity
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Rosenfeld, Monroe H.
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1900

Whose dog is it
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - Rossiter, Will
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1890

When the sun goes down
Contributor:
Will Rossiter - J. Leubrie Hill (John Leubrie)
Site:
Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 - The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Music Division
Original Format:
Notated Music
Date:
1910

All in out and down
Contributor:
Columbia - Macpherson - Smith - Williams, Bert
Site:
The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America - Performing Arts Encyclopedia - African American Band Music & Recordings, 1883 to 1923
Original Format:
Audio Recordings